Epilogue
Sara was sitting in the break room when Grissom walked in. This was her first shift since Nick came home and she had been skipping and singing the entire time. Grissom silently got a cup of coffee from the machine and sat down across from Sara.
"So how is Nick doing?" he asked. She looked up from the file she was reading.
"Excellent. He's planning on coming back the day after tomorrow," she said with a smile.
"Great," Grissom said. This really wasn't exactly what he wanted to talk about, and he was wondering how to bring it up. "Umm, Sara?" She looked at him. He took a deep breath.
"Is there anything going on between you and Nick?" he asked. She looked at him with her mouth open. She tried to think of something to say but the words kept on catching in her throat. Then she remembered that Grissom was emotionally handicapped.
"How did you know?" she said quietly.
"Umm…" he looked down at his hands, "Do you remember when Nick was talking into that tape?" She looked at him to go on. He sighed and continued, "Well I was reading his lips. You were in it." If it was possible Sara looked even more surprised.
"He said that he had enjoyed himself and hoped you could know how he felt about you." He looked at her waiting for her to start explaining. She was looking off into space, biting her bottom lip. Grissom cleared his throat, "Did you guys…did you…ummm…"
"NO! No, no we didn't. It was just a date," she said quickly and she could see Grissom was happy to be off that particular subject. "Is that ok?" she asked him.
"Oh, yes. Yeah its fine…just…I don't think you should tell Greg," He said getting up. "He wouldn't let you hear the end of it." Grissom gave her a half smile and he walked out the door, leaving Sara smiling, "Good idea," she said to herself, going back to the file in front of her.
Sara brushed imaginary lint off Nick's chest. "You know you don't have to do this," she said, not looking at him.
Nick held his head high and tried to be strong, even though he was really scared. Sara had told him all about his case. Sara and Nick both had cried more then they had in their entire lives, but now Nick knew everything about his case and everything about who he was about to go see.
"No. No I want to do this…I have to do this," he said just as a guard came to his side.
"You can go in now." Nick looked at Sara and said, "Wish me luck." Then he turned on his heel and followed the guard into the visiting room of the prison, off to see Kelly Gordon. "Good luck." She said to the closed door.
Nick waited for Kelly to sit and she started the conversation. "So you're the one."
"Yeah," he said, the tears already burning the back of his eyes.
"So what am I supposed to say…I'm sorry?" Kelly said nervously.
"No, no you didn't do anything to me." He paused," and I guess what you dad did, it was because he loved you so much." Kelly hung up the phone in frustration but Nick begged her to pick it back up, the tears actually coming down now. She did, reluctantly. Nick tried another approach.
"Kelly, when you get out of here…don't take it with you." Kelly finished the conversation and nick sat there a moment before getting up and joining Sara in the hall. He was crying when he came out and Sara rushed to hug him, and comfort him, so she cold help him get over this horrible nightmare.